Roddy-Duncan v. Duncan

CHARLES E. MOYLAN, Jr., Judge,

Retired, specially assigned.

Our reversal of the judgment in this case is on very narrow procedural grounds. We are remanding the case so that the trial judge may conduct a hearing on the appellant’s Motion to Vacate a Default Judgment, and the necessarily attendant question of whether Maryland properly had jurisdiction to hear this case. The jurisdictional contest is between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

The appellant, Mary Roddy-Duncan (“Wife”), and the appellee, Theodore Duncan (“Husband”), were married on March 12, 1988, in Philadelphia. Three children were born…